Alan Wake - Manuscript Pages - Episode 2 - Taken

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Page 1: The Sudden Stop 1 Edit This page is read out by the voice actor of Max Payne, and the text is a reference to that game series. It's true what they say about the fall and the sudden stop at the end. I'd lain here in the snow while the lurid chain of scenes that had led me here kept playing in my head, a rerun of my own private snuff movie, a memory of my corpse. Alone at my own wake. Thinking in metaphors again.

The femme fatale was gone. Only a sour taste remained of the kiss that killed me.

Page 2: The Sudden Stop 2 Edit This page is read out by the voice actor of Max Payne, and the text is a reference to that game series. This was a late goodbye. Thirteen years after I'd gotten my revenge, it had finally caught up with me. It'd been a long time to bear the pain. My blood painted the snow red — a gruesome slushie — dissolved all the scattered painkillers, and leisurely dripped down to the sewer, mingling with the bile of the city, becoming one with it.

I can see them now, my wife and my baby. Honey, I'm home.

Page 3: The Dark Presence in the Diner Edit In spite of its human mask, to describe the Dark Presence as intelligent would have implied human qualities on something decidedly inhuman. Nonetheless, it found the one spot in the diner that was dark enough. Some light spilled into the corridor, ravaging it, but it took the pain, horrible as it was. The writer would soon fix that. He would be coming to the one place where it still had power.

Page 4: Wake at Lovers' Peak Edit The kidnapper fired his gun one last time, and the shadow vanished into the darkness it had come from. "See, nothing to it, Wake."

The thought of Alice in his hands was revolting. We stood on the wooden platform of Lovers' Peak, the waterfall and the mountain behind us, the lights of the radio-mast blinking red in the heights above. I fought with the urge to take a swing, forced myself to speak.

"Let's cut the act now. Where's my wife?"

Page 5: Alice Sees a Shadow Edit Alice looked through the viewfinder, lining up the shot. Cauldron Lake was breathtaking. Something caught her eye: a figure standing in the shadows behind the cabin, like a thin woman in a black dress. She lowered the camera and looked again — no one there, just a collection of bushes that looked vaguely human-shaped. She shook her head and laughed.

Page 6: Barry Doubts Wake's Sanity Edit Barry had never gotten along with Alice, but he knew Alan loved her with an almost frightening intensity. And now something had happened to Alice — and here was Al, armed with a gun and saying things people got put in padded cells for. It was as if his friend had experienced a massive psychotic episode and was now totally disconnected from reality. It scared the shit out of Barry.

Page 7: Rusty Dying Edit The air in the visitor center was heavy with an awful smell, as if some rotten drowned thing had crawled up from its grave. Rusty kept coughing blood. My eyes were drawn to the twisted shape of his broken leg. The attack had been vicious. Max whined in his cage. Rusty's eyes were wild with fear and terror.

He gasped: "Mr. Wake, it happened just the way it was on that page."

Page 8: Rusty Attacked by the Dark Presence Edit The Visitor Center was sturdy, but the impact turned the front of the building into splinters. Rusty was thrown across the lobby like a rag doll and hit the far wall hard.